Feb 13, 2011

Essay Topic: What I Did This Weekend

I forgot to talk about Friday in my last post. Tad had an early meeting at school so I went and wandered around Union Square Park area. I went to Pan-ya, a small Japanese bakery over on 3rd Ave and 9th St. that makes real Japanese convenience foods, like melon-pan and individually wrapped onigiri. Melon-pan is just bread with cookie dough cooked on top and thatched to look like the outside of a melon like a honeydew. I love this bread and you can finish it usually in just over five big bites but it is a costly habit to pick up. I've had it maybe five? times in my life and have determined that I can't eat it as often as I would like (everyday).

After buying a melon-pan for snackies I wandered up to the farmer's market at the actual Union Square Park. After gaping at the expensive local honeys, ostrich meat and mushrooms I ended up with some obscure apple breed that claimed to be both sweet and tangy. I regret so much that I can't remember what it was, maybe starting with an a? Or maybe not. Apples in hand/bag, I found myself around 6th Ave and 20th St. where an old church was recommissioned as a set of boutique shops just recently opened. I remember when I visited Tad in Sept 2009 I had seen it under construction.

That's right, this is actually a set of shops, ranging from a deli in the back right to a salon on the second floor and a restaurant in the top. Awesome.

Urg, this post is getting long even without mentioning going to MoMA today or finishing with Ethiopian food (very vegetarian friendly) and a kosher bakery on 115 2nd Ave, Moishe's Bake Shop. For reference, GO TO MOISHE'S! The gentleman running the shop was wonderful and charming and the chocolate cigar was amazing. Is amazing. Whatever, all I can tell you is this place makes great baked treats. I don't even know what it is and I want another one. As does Anna, my sister-in-law and her friend. In fact, they are headed back tomorrow to get another one. Yes, it was that good.